#iwmd23 – African unions commemorate International Workers’ Memorial Day | Industriall

African unions commemorate International Workers’ Memorial Day 

2 May, 2023

To commemorate International Workers’ Memorial Day a group of shop stewards from different trade unions in Sub-Saharan Africa came together, in Ghana, to visit and learn about adherence to occupational health and safety standards at state-owned Tema oil refinery and Trafigura’s Tema multiproduct terminal known as Blue Ocean. As symbols of remembrance the workers and delegation wore black ribbons and carried black candles.

Kofi Poku, the union branch chairperson at the terminal said,

“Blue Ocean is known to be conscious on health and safety issues and workers make significant contributions towards creating a safe working environment. The visit by IndustriALL is commendable and highlights the commitment of organised labour at global level to ensure health and safety at work.”

A meeting preceding the visit discussed country reports which focused on: accident reporting systems in Togo, campaigns for health and safety laws in mining that protected workers’ rights in South Africa, and campaigns against precarious work as workers, in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda, with short contracts faced more health and safety risks than those on permanent contracts.

The meeting also heard that Madagascar’s garment and textile factories’ contract workers faced risks that were worsened by sexual harassment which was targeted at young women workers. The meeting discussed the positive impact of the Bangladesh Accord on Sub-Saharan Africa especially the involvement of brands through global framework agreements after the Rana Plaza disaster which happened a decade ago.

In Mauritius, unions were campaigning for proposed amendments to Articles 7, 10, 11, and 22, to the Rotterdam Convention, a global treaty to facilitate informed decision making by countries to manage chemicals in international trade and exchange information on hazardous chemicals and their potential risks. The campaign by the CTSP received government endorsement, and Mauritius’ position will be presented at the 11th conference of parties to the Rotterdam Convention that is currently taking place in Geneva, Switzerland.

Glen Mpufane, Industrial director for mining and lead on health and safety, said:

“Workers have made immense sacrifices on health and safety and as trade union activists we are in solidarity on their demands for safer workplaces. It is a victory for workers that health and safety is now one of the fundamental rights at work and this is why we must have knowledge on international labour conventions and recommendations. However, as we remember the injured and dead, we must adapt our programmes to include human rights’ due diligence and demand responsible business conduct from employers.”

Glen added that workers must remain vigilant on identifying hazards and risks at the workplaces including wearing of appropriate personal protective equipment in hazardous areas and exercising the right to refuse unfair and unsafework.

The participants are part of the Sub-Saharan Africa occupational health and safety committee whose members are drawn from the chemical, garment and textile, mining, oil and gas, and other industrial sectors. This visit was organized by IndustriALL affiliate, the Ghana Transport Petroleum and Chemical Workers Union which organizes workers at the Tema Oil Refinery and Blue Ocean.

https://www.industriall-union.org/african-unions-commemorate-international-workers-memorial-day

Global: #iwmd 23 – Safety for all – the need for gender-responsive OHS | IndustriALL

28 April, 2023 Gender based division of labour, sexual biological differences, employment patterns, social roles and social structures mean that women and men are exposed to different risks at work, and also exposed in different ways. These differences need to be identified and acknowledged, OHS policies should be gender-responsive to ensure workplaces that are safe for all workers.

The TUC’s guide for trade union activists on Gender in occupational safety and health illustrates that occupational health and safety often treats men and women as if they were the same. Less attention is given to the health and safety needs of women.

Traditional emphasis of health and safety, and related research, have been on risk prevention in visibly dangerous work largely carried out by men in sectors like construction and mining, where inadequate risk control can lead to fatalities. As a result, women’s occupational injuries and illnesses, like work-related stress or musculoskeletal disorders have been largely ignored, under-diagnosed, under-reported and under-compensated.

Across the world, work equipment, tools and personal protective equipment (PPE), have been traditionally designed for the male body size and shape. Moreover, as explained by the ILO, the design of most PPE is based on the sizes and characteristics of male populations from certain countries in Europe, Canada and the United States. As a result, not only women, but also many men experience problems finding suitable and comfortable PPE because they do not conform to this standard male worker model.

Gender inequality both inside and outside the workplace can affect women’s occupational safety and health and there are important links between wider discrimination issues and health. According to the ILO, in general, women are more exposed than men to psychosocial risks that can cause work-related stress, burnout, violence, discrimination and harassment.

The extra responsibilities that women face as paid workers and unpaid carers for their families make that women’s stress levels remain high after work. Not acknowledging gender differences may mean that apparently neutral policies impact differently on women and men and reinforce existing inequalities. OSH is a core aspect of promoting gender equality.

“We need a gender-responsive approach, based on the analysis of sex and gender disaggregated data, that acknowledges and makes visible differences between male and female workers, identifies their differing risks and propose control measures so that effective solutions are provided for everyone,”

says Glen Mpufane, IndustriALL OSH director.

ILO Convention 190 on violence and harassment in the world of work is a, calling on employers to conduct gender responsive risk assessment, taking into account gender stereotypes, multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, and unequal gender-based power relations.

Consultation with women workers and the women health and safety representatives in health and safety committees are key for the development of gender responsive OHS.

Guidelines on out gender-responsive risk assessment on violence and harassment

https://www.industriall-union.org/safety-for-all-the-need-for-gender-responsive-ohs

UK: Health and Safety is won through struggle – FBU – #iwmd23

Remember the dead, fight for the living

On International Workers’ Memorial day, FBU National Officer Riccardo La Torre reflects on how health and safety has been won by struggle and solidarity, not gifted by bosses. 

If you visit the Fire Brigades Union head office and climb the stairs to the top floor, you will find yourself pausing in front of a wall covered with a long list of names. For those of us who work in the building, this list is a daily reminder of why we’re there and why the union exists. Each of these two thousand plus names belongs to a firefighter killed in service. It is in their memory that we continue to organise and fight for our lives.

If we had a national record of every firefighter death from cancer or other workplace diseases, there would be thousands more names to add. In 2022, the World Health Organisation confirmed what many of us in the FBU already knew from tragic experience: firefighting is a cancer-causing occupation.

Every year on April 28th, we come together for International Workers Memorial Day, to remember each of these, and all workers’, lives lost. If you work in the fire service, you will know that our memorials are not reflections on a distant past. The fight for safety and our future is sadly still very much an ongoing struggle which shapes our lives now.

For many, ‘health and safety’ conjures up images of top-down clipboard tapping, high vis vests and managerial risk assessments. In truth, workers have had to fight ferociously to protect our health at work, and for our safety from injury and harm. Nothing has been handed to us, nothing has been gifted by bosses. The history of health and safety is of organised, radical class action. In the memory of every worker who hasn’t returned home from a shift, what we demand for ourselves and our colleagues must stay rooted in this tradition.

Take breathing apparatus (BA): arguably one of the most iconic symbols of firefighter safety. The cylinder, set and mask are what allow firefighters to breathe safely during firefighting and rescue operations. But the BA sets we now wear on our backs were hard won. Following the deaths of two firefighters at the 1958 Smithfield fire, the FBU launched demands for modernised BA that would protect lives. As a line from the union magazine at the time read, “this is the age which has launched the Sputnik. But in the fire service our breathing apparatus set has remained substantially unchanged for over 40 years.”

We won that campaign and have continued to fight to keep improving our BA ever since. During my time as the union’s Health and Safety lead, I’ve seen bosses try to take BA away from firefighters attending high-rise building fires. I’ve seen them attempt to stop PCR-covid testing for firefighters at the peak of the pandemic, and to deny the link between firefighting and cancers.

These constant attacks are why FBU health and safety reps work tirelessly across fire services every single day. On the ground, our reps know that we cannot allow the rights we have won to be rolled back or blocked.

In 2016, the Trades Union Congress published The Union Effect, a report finding that the health of a workplace is directly impacted by whether workers are part of a union: ‘organised workplaces are safer workplaces’. In a profession as dangerous and volatile as fire and rescue, we cannot afford to let our organisation slip.

To make sure we return home safely at the end of each shift, we must demand safety committees,  our right to time off for training and facilities. We must use the Brown Book, speaking up for our rights every time they are threatened.

Right now, the need for a strong and fighting membership is as urgent as ever as we demand action on firefighter cancer.

Together we’ve already forced this issue on to the agenda. When the government and employers said there wasn’t enough evidence to act, we set up a lottery to fund and commission the research.

Where fire services fail to provide information on how firefighters can protect themselves from toxic fire effluents, we run our own decontamination training.

While there is currently no health monitoring for firefighters to help detect cancers early, we have now launched the first cancer testing research project for firefighters in the UK.

All progress has been down to firefighters organising and making it happen against the odds. But we’re miles behind other countries when it comes to legislation, protection and support for firefighters facing cancer. The US, Canada, Australia, and Poland, amongst others, all have laws in place that recognise these diseases as occupational – caused by going to work.

The UK government and employers are still failing to take any serious action. It’s our job as organised workers to demand, campaign for and win these protections. We’ve done it throughout our history, and we will do it again.

This Workers Memorial Day, we remember every firefighter who has fallen in the line of duty, and every firefighter killed by a disease or cancer caused by their work.

A failing HSE cut to the bone or NFCC bosses’ committees cannot be relied upon to protect and defend the health, safety and welfare of firefighters, in fact we often see the opposite. As our history demonstrates, it is often down to us, and only us, to organise and do for ourselves and each other.

No one, no one, should get ill or killed for going to work. Today and every day, we remember the dead and fight for the living.

https://www.fbu.org.uk/blog/health-and-safety-won-through-struggle

Latin America: BWI affiliates mobilise for 2023 International Workers Memorial Day

Latin America: BWI affiliates mobilise for 2023 International Workers Memorial Day

BWI affiliates in Brazil, Peru, Panama, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Venezuela, Colombia and El Salvador were mobilised during the month of April to advocate for the workers’ fundamental right to a safe and healthy working environment, culminating in events across Latin America and the Caribbean on 28 April to mark the close of the campaign.

The more than 60 activities in the region have included workplace inspections, occupational safety and health (OSH) training, awareness-raising activities such as picketing and leafleting concerning work-related accidents and diseases, and demonstrations demanding governments and employers take measures to prevent work-related deaths and injuries.

In Brazil, one of the activities organized by FETRACONSPAR – the Federation of Workers in the Construction and Furniture Industries of the State of Paraná – in the framework of 28 April, was an act in memory of the lives lost due to work accidents. At a location part of many commuters’ journey to work, 239 crosses were placed in reference to the workers who died due to work accidents in 2022 in Paraná (Observatory of Health and Safety at Work). The crosses bore helmets of all colours, representing the different positions on a civil construction site, from the bricklayer’s assistant to the chief engineer – a reminder that everyone is exposed to risks. The event was covered by the Brazilian TV channel with the highest audience.

In Panama, the closing ceremony of SUNTRACS’ annual campaign was attended by 250 workers, the Panamanian Minister of Labour, union and company representatives and other authorities. Part of the event was a theatre piece to inform the new generations that today’s guarantees of personal protective equipment (PPE) and occupational health training are the result of a historic trade union struggle. The event was also a tribute to Barbara Mejía, former OSH secretary of SUNTRACS, who was responsible for training a generation of union leaders in the field. The event was broadcast live and closed with a demonstration.

In

Peru, FTCCP – the Peruvian Federation of Civil Construction Workers – organised a conference on 26 April entitled ‘Protection and defence of the right to health in the construction sector’ with authorities and experts, in which they demanded the reduction of the weight of the cement sac in Peru from 42.5 to 25kg.

In Argentina, UOCRA – the Argentinean Construction Workers’ Union – organized activities throughout the week of 24-28 April with digital and face-to-face activism in defence of healthy working environments through the dissemination of flyers and videos on social networks, and the distribution of posters and leaflets in workplaces. Amongst the activities, a highlight is the OSH union training programme for young delegates so that they are skilled to defend the application of the fundamental right to OSH, through the detection of risks at different stages of the work and know how to identify the adjustments that must be carried out to control these risks.

On 27 April, the BWI regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean organised a webinar to launch an OSH Brigade Manual. More than 70 trade union representatives from the region registered for the event. Denilson Pestana, BWI LAC Regional President, opened the webinar with a candlelight tribute in memory of workers who have died due to occupational accidents or diseases, followed by a presentation by Juan José Guilarte – Senior Specialist on Workers’ Activities of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Office for the Southern Cone – on the ILO Conventions on occupational health and safety that have been upgraded to fundamental status; Mauro Posada and Ever Asprilla, OSH secretaries of UOCRA and SUNTRACS, respectively, presented how OSH is being used by their organisations as a strategy for trade union activism; finally, BWI LAC Regional Representative, Nilton Freitas, presented the Manual, a tool available to BWI affiliates for OSH training.

https://www.bwint.org/cms/latin-america-bwi-affiliates-mobilise-for-2023-international-workers-memorial-day-2887

Belgium: La Journée mondiale de la sécurité et de la santé au travail – CGSLB – #iwmd23

En juin 2022, la Conférence internationale du travail (CIT) a décidé d’inclure “un environnement de travail sûr et sain” dans le cadre des principes et droits fondamentaux au travail de l’OIT. Ainsi, cette année, la journée mondiale explorera cette thématique.

Les syndicats comptent recourir à ce nouveau droit fondamental de l’OIT pour réduire le nombre important de victimes en faisant recours à l’organisation afin que sa mise en œuvre ait un effet positif sur la vie quotidienne des travailleurs et des travailleuses. Plus

Slovenia: 28. april, mednarodni delavski dan spomina na umrle na delovnem mestu

Association of Free Trade Unions of Slovenia – ZSSS 
Zveza svobodnih sindikatov Slovenije – ZSSS

OSH dedicated web site of ZSSS: https://zssszaupnikvzd.si/

Since 2006 ZSSS has been on 28 April (IWMD) informing public, media and workers OSH reps on state of OSH in Slovenia. At the same time we call out to national Ministers for Labour and for Health what needs to be done to improve OSH.

Dedicated web site to IWMD since 2006: https://zssszaupnikvzd.si/kampanje-o-varnosti-in-zdravju-pri-delu/28-april-kampanje/28-april-mednarodni-delavski-dan-spomina-na-umrle-na-delovnem-mestu/

E-news with IWMD 2023 messages:

15/2023 e-news ZSSS (19. 4. 2023): ILO ob 28. aprilu 2023 sporoča: “Varno in zdravo delovno okolje je temeljna pravica!”

16/2023 e-news ZSSS (26. 4. 2023): Sporočila ZSSS ob 28. aprilu 2023, mednarodnem delavskem spominskem dnevu

17/2023 e-news ZSSS (28. 4. 2023): ETUC: Žrtve azbestnega poklicnega raka in njihove družine pozivajo voditelje EU

Bulgaria: 28 April report from CITUB

CITUB  National secretary for Health and safety at work and Ecology, Aleksandar Shopov, has sent the following report and photographs describing their 28 April activities.
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As every year, on April 28th, CITUB and social partners paid tribute to the memory of those who died by submit flowers and wreaths in front of the memorial plaque placed next to the headquarters of CITUB in Sofia, and a minute of silence.

In memory of the workers who died in accidents, lighted candles in the shape of the sad number 84 were arranged next to the plaque, which is the number of workers who died in Bulgaria in 2022.

The Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Policy Prof. Dr. Emil Mingov and the Director of the IA “Main Labor Inspection” Ekaterina Asenova, representatives of the National Institute of Social Sciences, participated in the honour of the day.

CITUB President Plamen Dimitrov recalled that last year the International Labor Conference accepted that safe and healthy working conditions are a basic human right for every worker. This is the first expansion of basic human rights in a quarter of a century.

In Bulgaria, there is a lack of systematic data for monitoring workers exposed to asbestos, the president of CITUB pointed out. The majority of workers at risk carry out activities of demolition, reconstruction or rehabilitation, maintenance of buildings in which there may be asbestos. In 2020, only one occupational disease related to exposure to this substance was recognized in Bulgaria.

To help in the fight against asbestos and other hazardous chemical substances, the CITUB has launched a campaign “Stop Cancer in the Workplace”, which aims to encourage employers and workers to implement more effective measures to prevent cancer in the workplace.

According to the National Center for Public Health and Analysis, more than 30,000 new cases of cancer are registered every year. A number of studies show that between 5 and 8% of these are workplace-related. If we assume that only 5% of the total cancer cases are related to the profession, this means that at least 1,500 Bulgarian workers have contracted cancer related to the workplace.

After the submitting of flowers, CITUB also presented its annual awards for 2022, with which it distinguishes employers who have achieved good results in ensuring healthy and safe working conditions.

Austria: Gesunde Arbeit – Gedenktag für verunglückte Bauarbeiter: 15.602 Arbeitsunfälle am Bau in Österreich

Anlässlich des weltweiten Workers´ Memorial Day, des internationalen Tages zum Gedenken an verunglückte Arbeitnehmer:innen, erinnerte die Gewerkschaft Bau-Holz (GBH) im Rahmen einer Gedenkveranstaltung im Beisein von GBH-Bundesvorsitzenden Josef Muchitsch, GBH-Landesvorsitzenden Christian Sambs und GBH-Landesgeschäftsführer Wolfgang Birbamer an das unsägliche Leid, das durch Arbeitsunfälle hervorgerufen wird, und fordert weitere Maßnahmen zum Gesundheitsschutz.
Workers´ Memorial Day
Im Jahr 2003 stiftete die Gewerkschaft Bau-Holz einen Gedenkstein für verunfallte Bau- und Holzarbeiter:innen in Wien, an dem auch heuer in Gedenken an die im Beruf Verunglückten ein Kranz niedergelegt wurde.
GBH-Bundesvorsitzender Josef Muchitsch
GBH-Bundesvorsitzender Josef Muchitsch
Workers´ Memorial Day

 

Workers´ Memorial Day
Gedenkfeier am Keplerplatz

22 tödliche Arbeitsunfälle15.602 Menschen verunglückten 2022 allein im Baubereich in Österreich bei ihrer Arbeit, 22 von ihnen tödlich. Das ist zwar im Vergleich zu den Vorjahren ein Rückgang, aber mit 53,9 von 1.000 Arbeitnehmer:innen hat der Baubereich immer noch die mit Abstand höchste Unfallrate zu beklagen.

GBH-Bundesvorsitzender Abg.z.NR Josef Muchitsch: „Jeder Arbeitsunfall ist einer zu viel. Jeder Arbeitsunfall bringt für die Betroffenen und ihre Familien unermessliches Leid. Da kann man sich auch angesichts sich leicht bessernder Zahlen nicht zufrieden zurücklehnen. Auch wenn sich die Sicherheitsbedingungen auf den Baustellen und in den Betrieben verbessert haben, gibt es immer noch sehr viel zu tun. Neue Herausforderungen kommen in der Arbeitswelt dazu, Stress und Arbeitsdruck steigen. Deshalb muss an vielen Schrauben gedreht werden – von der Arbeitszeit über die Arbeitsbedingungen bis hin zum direkten ArbeitnehmerInnenschutz. Auch in Hinblick auf die Berufskrankheitenliste gibt es Handlungsbedarf.“

„Jetzt, wo es wärmer wird, sind die Baubeschäftigten zusätzlich durch hohe UV-Strahlung und Hitze belastet. Die GBH ist auch heuer wieder auf Baustellen unterwegs, um Aufklärungsarbeit zu leisten, Sonnenschutz und Mineralwasser zu verteilen. Ich fordere in diesem Zusammenhang auch die Arbeitgeberseite auf, nicht auf ihre Beschäftigten zu vergessen. Sonnen- und Hitzeschutz ist ein wichtiger Teil des Arbeitnehmer:innenschutzes und vor allem muss die Hitzeregelung ab 32,5 Grad, die wir für den Baubereich erreicht haben und die einzigartig ist, auch wirklich gelebt und umgesetzt werden“, fordert GBH-Landesgeschäftsführer Wolfgang Birbamer.

Workers´ Memorial DayDer „Workers´ Memorial Day“ am 28. April hat für die Gewerkschaft Bau-Holz traditionell große Bedeutung. Im Jahr 2003 stiftete die Gewerkschaft Bau-Holz einen Gedenkstein für verunfallte Bau- und Holzarbeiter:innen in Wien, an dem auch heuer in Gedenken an die im Beruf Verunglückten ein Kranz niedergelegt wurde.

Scotland: Songs, flowers and speeches mark 28 April in Edinburgh – #iwmd23

 

The Edinburgh TUC and Scottish Hazards 28 April event was held at the Workers’ Memorial Day Tree, Princes Street Gardens  with speakers, wreath/flower laying and song. It was attended by unions, bereaved families, pressure groups and others.

The gathering served to remember those who have died at work and refreshed the resolve to fight for safe and healthy working conditions in Scotland and throughout the world. 150 attended laying in total 30 wreaths.

Keynote Speakers were:
Catriona Lockhart (whose partner died through work)
Tracy McBurnie (NHS Lothian Unison)
Gus Sproul (FBU Regional Chair)

Songs from Protest in Harmony, a radical, Edinburgh based singing group.

 

The City of Edinburgh Council, other Councils and the Scottish Government lowered their flags as a mark of respect.

USA: 2023 Workers Memorial Day: Every worker is more than a number

A brilliant round-up of  28 April activities in the United States by  Jordan Barab from Confined Space.

Workers Memorial Day

Workers Memorial Day, as you’re all aware, is a day to mourn for those killed in the workplace and fight for the living. Events were held all over the country this year.  Below is a list of Workers Memorial Day articles. I’m sure I’ve missed many, so feel free to add them to the comment section below.

I especially want to encourage you to watch the US Department of Labor’s Workers Memorial Day ceremony here.  From the very moving words of OSHA’s new Family Liaison Tonya Ford at the beginning, to OSHA and MSHA directors, Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su and AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, and Wanda Engracia who lost her husband, to the wreath laying that concluded the ceremony.

But if you can’t watch the whole thing, at least watch the ten-minute video below that was presented during the program, of families describing the children and spouses and parents they’ve lost. But really, watch the whole thing. But bring some tissues. I defy you to watch this video — or Tonya Ford’s introduction starting at minute 3:00 —  without crying. None of the hundreds in the audience was successful.

But really, try to watch the whole thing. It’s a great use of an hour of your day.  You won’t regret it.

As Tonya said, “every worker is more than a number, every workers behind each incident is so more more than a statistic.

Workers Memorial Day 2023 Articles

Building Safer Workplaces – Daily Kos

Thousands of people died on the job in 2021. These were the deadliest industries

To Observe Workers Memorial Day, AFGE Raises Awareness on Workplace Violence

Saunders: Workers’ Memorial Day ‘is an important reminder of why we organize

Shuler on Deaths On The Job: ‘This report should not have to exist’

25 Things You Need to Know from the 2023 Death on the Job Report

A Proclamation on Workers Memorial Day, 2023 – The White House

2023 Workers Memorial Day: Organize for Safe Jobs

Workers’ Memorial Day shines light on workplace fatalities | Oxfam – Politics of Poverty

Workers’ Memorial Day: Ceremony honors lives lost due to workplace conditions

Alaska

We’re still fighting to keep Alaska workers safe – Anchorage Daily News

Arkansas

Honor the fallen

California

Memorial honors 191 Caltrans employees killed on the job

California marks Workers‘ Memorial Day, honoring those that were injured or killed

Honor our fallen workers by doing your part to protect others

California holds memorial for Caltrans workers that died while working on roadways

California marks Workers’ Memorial Day, honoring those that were injured or died on the job

Governor Newsom Proclaims Workers’ Memorial Day 2023

Florida

City councilman declares today as Workers Memorial Day

Workers Memorial Day

Georgia

Macon County ceremony honors workers who died on the job 

Illinois

Workers deserve better protection from injuries and sickness on the job

Unions Remember Those Killed on The Job with Workers’ Memorial Day

Central Illinois honors National Worker’s Memorial Day

Aspiring veterinarian among those honored by workers’ memorial

‘Champion of Animals’ honored at Worker’s Memorial

Death in Springfield a reminder of continued need to improve workplace safety

IBEW #197 member Matt Strupp talks safety

Workers Memorial Day Recognized at Local Memorial on North Hazel Street

Iowa

Workers who died on the job remembered today

Workers’ Memorial Day honored with reading of 50 deceased Iowa workers’ names

Workers Memorial Day in Waterloo honors 50 who lost lives on job

Kentucky

Workers’ Memorial Day: Ceremony honors lives lost due to workplace conditions

Maine

Maine Dept. of Labor Commemorates Workers Memorial Day

Local 14 retirees from Jay mill honored at Workers’ Memorial Day dinner

Massachusetts

In Mass., 51 workers died on the job last year

Massachusetts

Remember the Dead, Fight for the Living: Worker Memorial Day 2023 – EIN News

Michigan

MIOSHA and Michigan Construction Companies Raise Awareness of Fall Hazards in Construction

Workers Memorial Day – Gladwin County Record & Beaverton Clarion

Remembering fallen workers | News, Sports, Jobs – The Mining Journal

Workers’ Memorial Day ceremony set for Friday

Macomb County board recognizes workers who have lost their lives

Minnesota

MnDOT Remembers Workers Who Have Died on the Job

Fallen MnDOT workers honored

 Workers Memorial Day a reminder that more can be done to protect those on the job

30th Annual Workers’ Memorial Day At Duluth Labor Temple

Missouri

Karena Lorek: Today a day to remember those whose lost lives at work

Nevada

Honor our fallen workers by doing your part to protect others

New Jersey

Middlesex County remembers fallen workers at annual Workers Memorial Day event

New York

PEF commemorates Workers Memorial Day – Public Employees Federation

Memorial held for Thruway workers killed on the job

Workers Memorial Day honored in Rochester

Workers Memorial Day remembers those who died on the job, pushes for end to unsafe working conditions

Commentary: These common-sense measures will keep workers safer

North Carolina

‘He never came back home’: NC families push for more regulations after losing loved ones on the job

North Carolina honors people who died on the job in 2021

Workers’ Memorial Day Statement – North Carolina Department of Labor

North Dakota

Honor fallen workers by doing your part for safety

Fargo and Grand Forks labor leaders plan to honor workers on Workers Memorial

Ohio

Local union honors Workers’ Memorial Day, brothers killed in 2022 refinery fire – WTOL

Lake County commissioners, OHSA officials recognize ‘Workers Memorial Day’

Organized labor members to gather for Workers’ Memorial Day

Oklahoma

Workers’ Memorial Day honors Oklahomans killed while on the job – KOCO

Honor Oklahoma’s 19 fallen workers in 2022 by doing your part to protect others: Commentary

Oregon

Fallen workers remembered

Ceremony to Honor Oregon Workers Who Died on the Job in 2022

Workers Memorial Day honors workers who died on the job

Pennsylvania

25 people died in workplace incidents within the last year in South Central Pa.

Centre County elected officials, union leaders call for stronger worker protections in PA

PennDOT holds memorial for workers who died on the job

How safe is your workplace? Workers Memorial Day highlights on-the-job risks

You’re safer as a trout in Pennsylvania than you are as a worker’: a plea for more workplace safety

Ceremony honors Lehigh Valley workers killed on the job

Puerto Rico

Workers’ Memorial Day and Occupational Health and Safety Programs to Protect Puerto Rico Workers 

Tennessee

Commentary: Better, safer workplaces are worth fighting for

Texas

Opinion: Workers Memorial Day is a call for safety

Vermont

VDOL honors National Workers Memorial Day today

West Virginia

Remember workplace safety on Workers Memorial Day | Opinion

Washington

Today, we honor workers who died on the job | AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE)

15 Hanford chemical exposure deaths added to WA state worker death toll after law change

129 lives honored for Worker Memorial Day

Wisconsin

Local workers, state leaders honor Workers’ Memorial Day

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Workers Memorial Day is April 28

Wisconsin AFL-CIO report: 105 state workers died in 2021

Workers’ Memorial Day honors those who died on the job

AFL-CIO: 105 Wisconsin workers died on the job in 2021

Wyoming

On Workers’ Memorial Day, Workforce Services remembers lives lost on the job

It’s Workers’ Memorial day. Let’s ‘fight like hell for the living’

Wyoming is the deadliest state in the nation for workers, again

Remember the dead, fight like hell for the living